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Tooele County employees receive refresher on harassment, protected classes and reporting
Summary
A trainer led a roughly hour-long harassment and discrimination training for Tooele County employees covering protected classes, definitions of harassment (including hostile work environment and quid pro quo), recent statutory additions and reporting channels; trainer urged employees to report incidents and cited anti-retaliation protections.
A trainer led a harassment and discrimination training for Tooele County employees, reviewing federal and state protections, definitions of harassment and recommended reporting steps.
The trainer opened by saying the county does not see many harassment lawsuits but warned that those that occur are “very, very visible” and costly; the trainer urged staff to prevent incidents that could become front‑page news. The session covered the original five protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and later additions, including age under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), disability protections from the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), pregnancy protections added in 1978, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008. The trainer noted that Utah’s legislature added vaccine status to the list of protected categories in 2022 and discussed a state law protecting religious expression at work when it is “reasonable, nondisruptive, and non harassing.”
Why it matters: the trainer repeatedly framed harassment…
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